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…books or articles about writing. Reading about writing isn’t writing, but sometimes it can help you find your writing mojo again. Read some of my blog posts about writing. If…
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Writing Picture Books
…write better books, but not many with the specific purpose of helping writers write better picture books. Why is this? Because writing picture books is too easy for anyone to…
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So You Want to Write a Picture Book
…in the coming days, be offering practical guidance and (I hope) inspiration to others writing picture books. Tomorrow evening I’m offering a presentation on “Writing A Children’s Picture Book” at…
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How to Write a Picture Book
…you’re not a Kindle reader. If you have a picture book manuscript languishing in your files or a drawer somewhere, maybe it needs what Writing Picture Books: What Works &…
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Help For Your Picture-Book-Writing Woes
…not! From Chapter 4 of Writing Picture Books: What Works & What Doesn’t: “I thought I had a good idea for a story, but what I’ve written seems to be…
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Writing Picture Books: What Works and What Doesn’t
Writing Picture Books: What Works and What Doesn’t Takes novice and seasoned writers through steps from concept to publication. Available here as a downloadable PDF. Reviews Learn More Read an…
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What do you like writing better? Picture books or novels?
I love the spareness of a picture book, paring down sentences to their bare essentials. It’s a bit like writing poetry. But I also like being involved with characters for…
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Books About Writing
…inspiring group. Among many books recommended as we discussed the writers’ works-in-progress were a number about writing. Writing Picture Books: What Works & What Doesn’t by Kathy Stinson. An updated…
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The First International IBBY Canada Meeting
…Refugees, the Indigenous Picture Book Collection, Books for Beirut, Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities, and the Silent Books Collection. As I listened to reports on these activities at…
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Jan Coates, An Alumnus of the Seaside Writing Workshop
…and the other workshops participants. During the hours of quiet writing time on Nova Scotia’s south shore, Jan worked on her picture books – and she responded to a writing…
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A Writing Group to Celebrate
…Dyer. They’re a talented bunch. Paula is a playwright, translator, and drama teacher. Lena is an author of picture books and short stories who has recently signed a contract for…
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…of the first picture books for toddlers published in Canada. Kathy has since written a wide range of books: picture books, non-fiction, young adult fiction, historical fiction, horror, biography, series…
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“Who should I get to illustrate my manuscript?”
…s/he is doing on my book?” Would you like to know more about writing picture books before you undertake writing your own? Or before submitting what you’ve written to a…
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Pandemic Connections
What do these books have in common? 1. Both were signed to me personally and mailed to me from the US by their authors. 2. I value both books highly,…
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A Busy Fall Ahead
…be busy “writing.” Fortunately, I have a new picture book that’s finished which Annick has scheduled for publication in the spring of 2017. (More on that in a future post….
Read More...Kathy Stinson as Editor and Mentor
…These books, too, are getting rave reviews. I had nothing to do with the first published books by Cheryl Rainfield and Erin Thomas, but they too have brought fine writing…
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I Want To Go Back to Liberia!
…picture books structured around a pattern with variations, and I’m curious about where that led them (the one or two I did have the chance to read are quite funny!)…
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Congratulations, You’re #10,995!
…Amazon to tell them that the Twilight series sells more books than the Our Canadian Girl series, or that R.L. Stine sells more books than Kathy Stinson. “Kathy Who? #10,995?…
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Home
…in to hear multiple perspectives on this picture book biography last week. Editor Bev Brenna interviewed me, illustrator François Thisdale, the book’s subject Anne Innis Dagg, and Anne’s daughter Mary….
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Summer Reading, Reading Aloud
…For The Outside Circle, a graphic novel by Patti Laboucane Benson (Book #37), and The Word Collector and A Family Is a Family Is a Family, picture books by Peter…
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Are You “Addicted to Distraction”?
…our family this year attending yoga classes spending time with family and friends reading satisfying books and thought-provoking articles walking the dog writing blog posts working on a new picture…
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Looking Ahead… And Looking Back
…and Unity”. When children on the beach, too poor to go to school, see me taking a picture of Ingrid by the water’s edge they gather round, keen to have…
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Six Tips for Staying the Course After Rejection
…way, despairing of ever getting your vision captured on paper, and soaring as your writing surprised you with its flashes of brilliance. Or at least glimmers of luminosity. You researched…
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Why did you want to be a writer?
I’ve loved reading books for longer than I can remember. (That’s me in the picture, reading in my gramma’s backyard.) As an adult, I started to wonder if I would…
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A Star for Starfall
I’m doing as much editing as writing these days. One of the projects I’ve been working on as editor is a picture book collaboration between two newcomers to the world…
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Do you get along well with your publishers?
…been lucky to have worked with Rick Wilks at Annick Press on almost all my picture books, with Mary Macchiusi at Pembroke on my books about writing, and with a…
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Where you'll find me in Autumn 2017
The Eden Mills Writers Festival last weekend marked the beginning of a busy season of “being an author” (as opposed to actually writing, which I hope to be doing a…
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5 Reasons You Want to Be Invited to the Knowlton Literary Festival
Danny McAuley — Owner of Brome Lake Books. I knew just from our emails beforehand that I was going to love Danny. He and his wife Lucy made sure they…
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A Tulip in Winter
A Tulip in Winter: A Story About Folk Artist Maud Lewis Illustrated by Lauren Soloy Published by Greystone Books A picture book biography that celebrates Maud Lewis and her artistic…
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